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Disability Royal Commission to hear final week of evidence

ABC News
Monday 8th May, 2023

The president of People with Disability, Nicole Lee, says the commission has shone a light on the level of violence some people have experienced.

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Teen brothers with disabilities found naked and locked in room, commission hears

Guardian Australia
Sunday 8th May, 2022

Two brothers with disabilities were discovered severely malnourished, naked and locked in a room with no food or furniture, the disability royal commission has been told. The commission heard on

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Disabled Australian women face forced sterilisation, abortion and contraception, health groups say

Tory Shepherd
Guardian Australia
Thursday 27th April, 2023
Victorian organisation Women’s Health in the South East said forced sterilisation was often performed to prevent pregnancy, that it breached “every international human rights treaty to which Australia is a
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One Nation video mocking NDIS condemned as ‘vile’ by disability advocates

Donna Lu and AAP
Guardian Australia
Saturday 8th April, 2023
People with Disability Australia and Advocacy for Inclusion have called for Hanson to withdraw the video and apologise. The People with Disability Australia president, Nicole Lee, said the video showed
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Non-verbal young boy in state care can’t access $27,000 of his NDIS funding, grandmother says By

Katri Uibu
ABC
Thursday 23rd March, 2023
"It is criminal. It is so abusive. If you are going to remove a child from care, particularly a child with a disability, you have an ethical responsibility to ensure
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A woman drowned in a bath, a carer abused clients: Sydney NDIS provider condemned

Perry Duffin
SMH
Tuesday 21st March, 2023
The damning findings against Afford, the Australian Foundation for Disability, were released after the royal commission heard evidence about a carer who abused two disabled men. The company also faces
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Detainees with disabilities in ‘spiral of hopelessness’ after cancelled United Nations visit to Australia

Elizabeth Wright and Celina Edmonds
ABC
Friday 10th March, 2023
People with disabilities in the criminal justice system feel like they exist in a "black hole" after an international torture prevention body cancelled a visit to Australia. "We're locking them
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Own Motion Inquiry into aspects of supported accommodation report

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
This first Inquiry focused on the experiences of NDIS participants living in supported accommodation. The Inquiry examined reportable incidents and complaints that have been made to the NDIS Commission in
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Independent disability advocacy: Submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

DANA
Wednesday 21st December, 2022
The submission is informed by the collective knowledge and experience of independent disability advocacy member organisations. It explores the context, key barriers and challenges for the disability advocacy sector and
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Watchdog reveals thousands of reports of sexual misconduct, injury, abuse and neglect in disability group homes

Stephanie Dalzell
ABC
Monday 16th January, 2023
There have been more than 7,000 serious incidents — including sexual misconduct, serious injury, abuse and neglect — in disability group homes over the past four years, according to a
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NDIS report lays bare supported accommodation failures

Danielle Kutchel
PBA
Monday 16th January, 2023

A bleak new report has revealed the scale of issues in Australia’s supported accommodation system. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission’s inaugural ‘Own Motion Inquiry’ into Aspects of Supported Accommodation…

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Complaint mechanisms: Reporting pathways for violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation

University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne and the University of Technology Sydney.
Disability Royal Commission
Tuesday 15th November, 2022
The report found that a lot of violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation experienced by people with disability is related to being segregated or institutionalised, discrimination and negative attitudes. It said
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